“Texas Shark Watch”

We’ve earlier reported on the threat to the free market posed by social-conservative trial-lawyers seeking to hijack the Republican party. (See also this National Review article on the Astroturf “Center for a Just Society” that quotes me and Walter.) There’s now an organization, Texas Shark Watch (via Childs), tracking the trend in Texas, and demanding […]

We’ve earlier reported on the threat to the free market posed by social-conservative trial-lawyers seeking to hijack the Republican party. (See also this National Review article on the Astroturf “Center for a Just Society” that quotes me and Walter.) There’s now an organization, Texas Shark Watch (via Childs), tracking the trend in Texas, and demanding that Texas Republicans sign a pledge not to take trial-lawyer money. And they also blog. (Update: May 21).

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